luchong

Thank you, thats the kind of answer I was hoping for. One question that I have about this though is: if the method is called whenever the block is rendered, why is it printing to console only when i place or destroy a block that is near my block. Is it because blocks are re-rendered only when neccessary?

About that function? Because I wanted to understand how BlockFence works so I can do something similar

Actually yes, but its called from some low level forge methods and I'm a begginer modder (not programmer) so I thought perhaps someone in the forums already knew about this and could share the information so I dont have to be a forge source code expert to make just a simple block. Apparently you don't know but thank you anyways

I tried that but I dont get it: I created a class for my block, overwritten getActualState to do nothing but print to console. I dont call it anywhere else and it still prints sometimes when I place blocks or break them. The only methods in the Block class (the parent of my class) that call getActualState are getBedDirection, isBedFoot, isSideSolid and setBedOccupied. I don't see why any of those methods would be called

I want to make a block that changes its model depending on the blocks around it. The most similar block I found in vanilla was the fence block and it uses getActualState() When does that method get called and how do I know when X method in the Block class gets called (besides Forge comments, which a lot of the methods dont have) Thanks